Linklog: A Pynchonesque encounter, Frank McCourt remembered, and more

Salman Rushdie's dinner with Thomas Pynchon must have occurred during the year after the fatwa, to judge by the date of the review Rushdie is said to have been writing when they met. If you had to rely on the discretion of one famous stranger, I suppose, Pynchon would be a pretty good choice. Rushdie reports that he was "Pynchonesque".